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Exhibits. Besides Persia, 19 countries will send specimens of Persian art to London. From Egypt will go treasures of Cairo Museum and the Khedivial library, from Russia famed silver, gold, bronze Sassanian† vessels. Museums and private collections in the U. S. (including Manhattan's Metropolitan, Chicago's Art Institute), and in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland will contribute Persian pieces...
...doors of Burlington House open there will be on view 100 carpets, more than 1,000 textiles, 1,500 paintings & drawings, hundreds of the finest extant Persian book covers, more than 1,000 pieces of faïence, a priceless collection of illuminated manuscripts, bronzes from Achaemenian and Sassanian times, sculpture, architectural and ornamental detail, friezes, ceramics, enamel, glassware, brocades, velvets, tapestries, gold and silver work, a unique collection of Saljuk silverware, gold and silver inlay, lacquer work. Notable will be a group of remarkably preserved bronze Achaemenian objects of great sculptural beauty and vigor recently unearthed in Luristan Province...
...Persian Architecture, Sassanian Period", Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...
...Persian Architecture, Sassanian Period", Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...